Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,
White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Новые левые, мальчики бравые
- Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’:
- Limerick: Once a Great Leader with empty pockets by T. Wignesan
- Такахама Кёси – Драчливые петухи
- Николай Заболоцкий – Все, что было в душе
- The Last Laugh poem – John Betjeman poems
- Олег Бундур – Скука
- Eclogue:–The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
- The Gardener LXXXIV: Over the Green by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Public Waste by Rudyard Kipling
- On the Death of a Young Gentleman by Phillis Wheatley
- Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- Валерий Брюсов – К Адалис
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.